" Alcohol has always been a class divider. These new social pressures certainly tamped down on women's drinking culture, but mostly for poor women. The biggest thing that prevented women from drinking was poverty. . . . although poor women could afford to drink less often, they were more likely to be arrested when they did and overindulged. Poor women paid a far greater price for both drinking and making alcohol. "

― Mallory O'Meara , Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol